Reading Claudius: A Memoir in Two Parts

by Caroline Heller

A stunning elegy to a vanished time, Caroline Heller's memoir traces the lives of her parents, her uncle, and their circle of intellectuals and dreamers from Central Europe on the eve of World War II to present-day America. In this unforgettable dual memoir of her parents' lives and her own, Caroline Heller brings to life the lost world of European caf culture, and reminds us of the sustaining power of literature in the most challenging of times...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385337612
• ISBN13: 9780385337618
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: The Dial Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.1" x 5.7"